Industrialization stages of China's main economic regions
| Region | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage | Nationwide | Four major economic areas | Seven major economic regions | Urbanization rate | |
| Postindustrialization | Three cities and four provinces | Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong | East coast China (98, 2009) | Yangtze river delta (100) | 75% |
| Pearl river delta (95) | |||||
| Late industrialization | The second half of the phase: two provinces | Nationwide (80, 2009) | Circum-Bohai-Sea Region (90) | 60–75% | |
| Liaoning and Fujian | |||||
| The first half of the phase: eight provinces and a city | Shanxi, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Chongqing | Northeast China (60) | Northeast China (60) | ||
| Mid-industrialization | The second half of the phase: 11 provinces | Qinghai, Hunan, Henan, Xinjiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, Guangxi and Hainan | Central China (45) | Central region covering six provinces (45) | 50–60% |
| Western China (40) | Northwest China (42) | ||||
| Southwest China (40) | |||||
| The first half of the phase | |||||
| Early phase of industrialization | The second half of the phase | Guizhou | 30–50% | ||
| The first half of the phase | |||||
| Preindustrialization | Xizang | Lower than 30% | |||
| Region | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage | Nationwide | Four major economic areas | Seven major economic regions | Urbanization rate | |
| Postindustrialization | Three cities and four provinces | Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong | East coast China (98, 2009) | Yangtze river delta (100) | 75% |
| Pearl river delta (95) | |||||
| Late industrialization | The second half of the phase: two provinces | Nationwide (80, 2009) | Circum-Bohai-Sea Region (90) | 60–75% | |
| Liaoning and Fujian | |||||
| The first half of the phase: eight provinces and a city | Shanxi, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Chongqing | Northeast China (60) | Northeast China (60) | ||
| Mid-industrialization | The second half of the phase: 11 provinces | Qinghai, Hunan, Henan, Xinjiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, Guangxi and Hainan | Central China (45) | Central region covering six provinces (45) | 50–60% |
| Western China (40) | Northwest China (42) | ||||
| Southwest China (40) | |||||
| The first half of the phase | |||||
| Early phase of industrialization | The second half of the phase | Guizhou | 30–50% | ||
| The first half of the phase | |||||
| Preindustrialization | Xizang | Lower than 30% | |||
Source(s): Chen Jiagui et al. (2007), Report on Chinese Industrialization, Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing. The author makes an extrapolation estimation based on the rate of change in the data calculated in the said report